What could the Yahoo! Answers Team do to improve this site?

Money is all that will solve their problems. They would hire an extra 30 employees to do live monitoring of the site, which includes actually reading and processing reports of abuse, rather than kicking it over to a bot that doesn't interpret the accuracy of the reports, but just logs a number and deletes when it is reached. That. Peace

Yes i have some of my thoughts. First of all the suspending thing. I had my account suspended after 2 days after entering this site but i didnt get a violation email. So i told them to reactivate my account but they said my acc is not suitable for reactivation. Its funny you know. This is my 2nd account. I have had 11 violations or so and none of them for insulting other users or using bad words. Most of them were inaccurate short answers and they really love removing them. If you go to a cricket or football section see how many people there are using names to call other people and etc. I have been keeping links to those things but they never get removed. Questions getting removed : 2 days ago i asked " Are you wearing shoes right now"? and i got a violation for chatting with other users. That's very funny. How many people in the P&S section ask those type of Qs ? A lot. And another thing. When we appeal violation notices we get as a reply the terms of use and the community guildlines. I am really tired of it. They cant answer why my answer or question got removed! We can never go against them..........if we do then we get suspended. I know i got unfair violations and you cant help it. So we have to let them win. It is unfair but we cant do anything.

Three thrings, but this means a higer degree of responsibility from BOTH support and member. 1) Banning of trolls. Y!A has the philosophy that it is unfair to ban an IP address for it affects others at the address. Well, if a troll is going to have falmer wars here, they really do not care about others. Trolls MUST be stopped so banning via IP address may be the best, only option 2) A better appeal process. having come off a 10-day suspension, the reaction from the staff was one of neglect. I deserve to be able to honestly argue any suspension and answer violation with someone for real. We need a hall of justice where I have an appointment to argue the merits of the case. As the aggrieved party, i explain why this is not worthy of a violation or suspension. If I have filed the report, I must defend why I feel that it is a violation and not just some knee-jerk reaction because I don't particularly like the question or answer. And if i am suspended, there is a term limit. My account is suspended for six months or whatever. We cannot have this "non-deletion banishment" where there is no hope of restoration. If the person is that bad, then delete them flat out when the appeal fails, OK? But don't keep them hanging around until the end of time 3) A remodification of the violation categories. Quite frankly, "chatting" does not bother me at all. I don;t care if you want to know what people think of Britney Spears or my favorite songs from between 1999 and 2004. Violations are for serious infractions Squatting Cloning Solicitations Race baiting Foul language Obscene avatars Spite violation reports These are heavy duty, not junk like "posting in wrong category", "pretending to be non-human", "wearing white shoes after labor day." Now, the big trick is whether Y!A believes in itself enough to see that there is a problem and they are willing to work with the membership to fix it

hmmm i would like to be able to say something with out getting reported!

Complaints & Reports.

It is the rules themselves that require the most work. They need to more clearly define what is acceptable as being "chat" or "not a Q or A. One of the TC's in NZ has over 50,000 points, and in the last week has had 3 violations, the first ones she has had since starting. I have seen each of them as she is one of my proteges and I see that they are all boarder line. I can see how they could break the rules, but another contact says they aren't.

The question is simple and I think a simple answer applies... listen to it's users! YA should contact users who complain - this is the finest compliment you can get... most people simply don't bother and go elsewhere, which is bad for business. Complaints and, more importantly, positive suggestions and solutions should be gathered, measured, replied to... and implemented.

They could get rid of Helga Bones. She is a spammer on the Polls/Surveys section.

They can start by cracking down on those trolls you know, they are starting to get out of hand.